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kirtsy.com

I stumbled across this site late last night and thought it was something that should be shared. If anyone out there uses or has heard of digg.com then you’ll get what this site is about. It’s basically a site of user generated content and the most popular (or most clicked) news links move to the [...]

Off with her hair!

On March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. On Friday the 13th of March, women all over Australia, including Nicola Parsons, will be shaving their hair off to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. For Nicola, this event represents a rite of passage, a tribute to women past who have defied social customs and [...]

a new combat team for body image

A new government initiative – the Body Image National Advisory Board – met for the first time this week and will be working towards combating the prevalence of negative body image amongst girls, and recognising how the media and fashion industries play a huge part in this. Over the next five months the group will [...]

And just to prove that women are objectified in ways that men arent….

Check out this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/ 2009/03/02/apatow_nude/index.html I posted to the lip blog when the original Vanity Fair cover came out. You can find a picture of it at http://stereogum.com/img/scarlett_johannson_nude.jpg. This also shows how unoriginal women’s sexuality is these days; would you have known that was Scarlett Johansen?